livekit-agents@1.8.3 v0.77.0

Name: agents
Author: livekit

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livekit/agentsSep 26, 2026 → Sep 28, 20262 days between releases

What's New

Upgrade to 0.77.0 adds runtime optimizations and LLM certification, but requires replacing family flags and dropping Intel/Apple targets.

Breaking Changes

Replace family flags with typed activation frontiers
Drop unsupported Intel Apple targets

New Features

Graph-derived stage filtering
Run-ahead verify windows
In-process payments engine (payments.v1 plugin)
Serve non-chat GGUF via OpenAI API
Live runtime event stream

Improvements

Streamlined llama family certification via Inkling and Skippy
Native runtime event pipeline improvements
Shutdown handling fixes
OpenAI API compatibility for non-chat GGUF workloads

Bug Fixes

Shutdown handling fixes

Upgrade Notes

You must replace legacy family flags with typed activation frontiers. Support for Intel and Apple targets has been dropped, so ensure your deployment environment is compatible. The new in-process payments engine (payments.v1 plugin) is now available.

The Two Releases

livekit-agents@1.8.3

Sep 26, 2026· 26 days ago

Moves the OpenAI Realtime inference client into agents core and adds support for Gemini 3.8 Live, AssemblyAI's universal-3-6-pro, and `reply_required` in tool results.

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v0.77.0

Sep 28, 2026· 24 days ago

This release focuses on expanding LLM certification capabilities by streamlining the llama family certification process and introducing new runtime optimizations like graph-derived stage filtering and run-ahead windows. It also adds an in-process payments engine and enhances OpenAI API compatibility for non-chat GGUF workloads.

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